This was a good book about a baseball player who is also an alcoholic and drug addict. The author takes us through each year of the athlete's life, giving great backgound about those years based on the news at the time, the music of that year, and MLB news of that season. I love baseball, especially the Yankees, and found these reflections brought me back to the years spoken about, sometimes jogging my memory and sometimes telling me something I didn't know or had forgotten.
As far as the progagonist, Jack, different life events keep him from making the most of his baseball talent. Family issues, personal issues, his inability to get close to very few people, and substance abuse lead to an unsatisfactory life for him. He is very much alone, often without family or friends, and fills the void with cocaine and alcohol as well as listening to music. Jack made many bad choices in life, all with consequences, and never seemed able to pull himself up by the bootstraps to make a successful life for himself. His character was well-developed by the author and was full of flaws and weaknesses. The ending was sppropriate but I never saw it coming.
The Kindle formatting left a little to be desired. There were no spaces between paragraphs and no identation for new paragraphs so often everything seemed to run together. Also, there were breaks for chapters, but no chapter numbers. A positive point is that there were hardly any typos.
Overall, I would recommend this book to people who like baseball, wonder what it's like trying to make it in the big leagues, and who have an interest in addiction problems. I think either gender can find it an enjoyable read.
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